Rick Prol Studio Visit

[nightrader1]

Great Job James.  Whose Kate btw?

[jcjim99]

Also the EV 81 came about because there were ton's of artists who couldn't get a show in SoHo so they set up in the EV, a veritable shithole at that time ( +Heroin capitol of the world) where rent was dirt cheap.

The EV didn't die with the passing of Warhol + JMB+ AIDS, a romantic notion, but not at all true. Gentrification killed it. Guys like Peter Halley & Jeff Koons are still HUGE art stars.

EV never really "died". It just morphed into something else.

[jcjim99]

i would have liked less chit-chat and more views of the paintings. i actually don't agree 100% with the "we are all accidents" comment. some truth in that, but we are free to make our own choices as well. ultimately it was JMB's choice to shoot dope just as one chooses anything in Life.

[LStarCooperative]

Thanks so much James Kalm..

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Rick Prol is one of my favorite painters. He has a good crap detector. Thanks James Kalm. Best -

[fox408]

another great post...thanks james!

[andblast]

great one, this. I'm really enjoying the street tours you've been adding on too

[4ureally]

Paraphrase: "painting is a game and you have to deepen the game. You have to deepen the game to make the work look interesting. Job of the artist is harder because you have to make it look interesting and that is hard and harder to do."

And that IS THE PROBLEM!!

[3589546]

Bacon remarks are good. So much more interesting to see this in this format than an art magazine article. Great stuff.

[STEVENLEE011]

A moving personal take on the East Village art scene. Thanks James. Great interview!

[bobwilsonray]

Wonderful interview. One could feel the emotion. I remember looking at the obits in Art News & Art in America at that time & seeing too many artists dying. It was even sad from a distance. I also get angry when I think of that time for many politicians and the tv evangelists were more worried about "morality" than they were about the lives of human beings. There wasn't near enough funding for AIDS research at that time. Too much bantor about peoples' sex lives and not their humanity.

[claureic]

When he talks about Bacon and the accident at the end, it gets really brilliant. 6 stars to this one.

[claureic]

The piece at 1.42...There is a Van Gogh postcard pinned on the wall next to it. That is really a great insight into an artist's source of inspiration. Thanks James.

[MrWowforever]

wow. thanks mr kalm. 5 stars.

[spawnofdawnacle]

Uncomfortable. In a good way. The beetles are killing the trees. They don't know they're an accident. Days are shorter. More time to paint with the tortoise in hibernation. Be OK guys. You're the best. Thanks, thanks, thanks.

[CantCopeWontCope]

i expect to see "rick prol'd" as a 4chan meme any day now...

;)

[CapricornArtist73]

Thanks James another brilliant inside look into artists lives both present and past!

[StevenChandlerArtist]

excellent!

[seintzeit]

more.

[Being48]

THANKS James :-)

[RonSchira]

This is great, and just for a side story, it was this work and David Wojnarowicz's and a few others that you guys mentioned that made me make plans to move to New York and be part of it, I walked around the alphabet with a street artist named Fa-Q in '84 but instead came back here and got married, damn.

[MrWowforever]

come back, come back...................

[jameskalm]

Hey Ron,

the Grim Reaper was cruising the nabes. The death toll on this community made Viet Nam look like a Sunday picnic. Better to be in Penn. than Greenlawn.